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A bomb blast at the United Nations building in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, has killed at least 16 people.
Witnesses report seeing a vehicle force its way past security and explode once it reached the four-story building on Friday morning.
Rescuers raced to pull bodies and survivors from the rubble at the compound.
In Tripoli, Libyan rebels are continuing to battle Gadhafi loyalists in parts of the city.
The Abu Salim district just south of Gadhafi’s former compound has been the focus of the heaviest fighting, and there is speculation that Gadhafi - or one or more of his sons - may be holding out in the district.
Libyan rebels advancing towards Sirte, the hometown of Moamer Kadhafi, were blocked Wednesday in the town of Bin Jawad as loyalists kept a stiff resistance, an insurgent commander said.
After taking Ras Lanuf, 150 kilometres (93 miles) west of Sirte, the rebels had advanced up to Bin Jawad, but were stuck there as they came under heavy artillery, rebel commander Fawzi Bukatif told AFP.
“Kadhafi’s forces are still fighting, we are surprised. We thought they would surrender with the fall of Tripoli,” Bukatif said in the nearby coastal town of Zuwaytina which also houses an oil exporting port.
Al Arabiya was the first Arab TV channel to enter the Tripoli International Airport on Thursday after being controlled by the Libyan rebels.
A rebel commander told Al Arabiya correspondent at the airport Khalil Weld Jdoud that Qaddafi forces had bombed planes at the airport.
A group of rebels besieging a cluster of apartment buildings near the compound of Muammar Gaddafi said they believed the man who led Libya for four decades was hiding in the buildings with some of his sons.